Suicide bomber kills two Saudi guards on Iraq border

January 5, 2015 8:38 AM

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A suicide bomber killed two Saudi guards on Monday on the border with Iraq, where Islamic State jihadists have seized a swathe of territory, the interior ministry said.

The blast in the Arar region followed a firefight between the border patrol and the assailants, one of whom was shot dead, a ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

"A border patrol in Suwayf, in the northern Arar region, came under fire by terrorist elements," the spokesman said.